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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nobuhiro Tsurumaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/700 ;
Abstract
A cassette auto-changer includes a cassette accommodating portion, a plurality of recording and/or reproducing units, a cassette transport mechanism and a controller. The cassette accommodating portion stores assigned recording format information for the cassettes which can be accommodated therein, and includes gates for reading the stored format information and supplying the format information to the controller in response to a read signal from the controller. The cassette accommodating portion also senses the size of the cassettes accommodated therein.